Trent Reznor‘s new
video sees him making up with old adversary Marilyn Manson. And making enemies
with pretty much everyone else.

Nine Inch Nail‘s Trent Reznor has lambasted
some of rock‘s biggest Stars in the video for new single Starfuckers Inc. The
hostile clip cruelly lampoons, among others, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love and
Billy Corgan for being empty celebrities. “My God is a shallow little bitch“,
run the lyrics, “trying to make a scene‘

Co-starring Marilyn Manson, the promo sees
Reznor visit a desert fair-ground where he pays a one-armed huckster to smash
plates painted with Stipe‘s face, along with the head of a large, bald dummy
clad in Corgan’s trademark “zero“ t—shirt. Images of Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks
and Gene Simmons also feature prominently although the worst of Reznor‘s bile is
reserved for Courtney Love, with whom he has a long history of animosity. She‘s
depicted as a weighty haggard Ugly Sister, fellating an Oscar while dangling
above a Dunk Tank emblazoned with the word “waste“.

The often deliberately obtuse Reznor also
smashes images of himself and Manson, whose last album, Mechanical Animals, he
drops into a toilet. The pair have now re-united after their recent falling
out, with the new relationship cemented by Manson‘s appearance on-stage with
Nine Inch Nails at Madison Square Garden, New York on 9 May.

However, Reznor has been forced to re-title the
track, which will only be released in America, re-naming it Starsuckers Inc. and
changing the lyrics accordingly. However, there was no question of curtailing
the content of its video. “(Marilyn) Manson said it best;‘ explained Reznor discussing
the segment. “There‘s mean and then this is just brutal.“